For more than a year before his death, the Communist Party and the Soviet government had soldiered on without him. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. The pathologists’ conclusion that Poe died of rabies even became a final question on the “Jeopardy!” game show. He graduated from high school ranking first in his class. (He adopted the pseudonym Lenin in 1901 during his clandestine party work after exile in Siberia.) Within the party itself, Lenin was revered almost as a Christ-like figure. Compounding that was the stress Lenin experienced, which can precipitate a stroke in someone whose blood vessels are already blocked. In the autumn of 1888, the authorities permitted him to return to Kazan but denied him readmission to the university. He wrote to Alexei Maximovich Gorky, “I am so tired, I do not want to do anything at all.”. First, his father was threatened shortly before his untimely death with premature retirement by a reactionary government that had grown fearful of the spread of public education. But this was a conference with a twist. Experts differ on the likely causes of the stroke that killed Lenin at 53. Lenin, intellectually gifted, physically strong, and reared in a warm, loving home, early displayed a voracious passion for learning. Updates? Omissions? Challenges of the Revolution of 1905 and World War I, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Lenin, Alpha History - Biography of Vladimir Lenin, Duhaime.org - Biography of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Spartacus Educational - Biography of Lenin, Vladimir Ilich Lenin - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), Vladimir Ilich Lenin - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). Lenin] State University), but within three months he was expelled from the school, having been accused of participating in an illegal student assembly. The mausoleum, designed by A. V. Shchusev as a cube-like structure of gleaming red granite, was built on Red Square abutting onto the Kremlin wall. Then, in his last hours and days of his life, Lenin experienced severe seizures. Lenin married Nadezhda Krupskaya on July 22, 1898. As founder of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and leader of the Bolshevik coup d'état (1917), Vladimir Lenin created the Soviet Union. The cause of death was said to be cerebral hemorrhage, but Lenin’s father had an illness at the time of his death that may have been typhoid fever. But, despite the comfortable circumstances of their upbringing, all five of the Ulyanov children who reached maturity joined the revolutionary movement. Second, in 1887 his beloved eldest brother, Aleksandr, a student at the University of St. Petersburg (later renamed Leningrad State University), was hanged for conspiring with a revolutionary terrorist group that plotted to assassinate Emperor Alexander III.